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Elevate Software, Inc. is a small software company based in North Tonawanda, New York, USA. It primarily sells the DBISAM and ElevateDB embedded database engines for database application developers, and also offers Elevate Web Builder as a web application development environment. DBISAM is more oriented toward Delphi/C++Builder desktop database use cases and BDE replacement scenarios; ElevateDB is its next-generation relational database engine, with support for SQL 2003, Unicode, views, triggers, stored procedures/functions, constraints, and replication.
From a feature perspective, the products emphasize being “compiled into the application,” supporting “local or remote access,” and enabling “royalty-free distribution.” Both DBISAM and ElevateDB are available in Standard and Client-Server editions: Standard includes a 5-connection/session server, suitable for small deployments and testing; Client-Server includes an unlimited-connection/session server. Development interfaces cover VCL, LCL, ODBC, .NET Data Provider, PHP Extension, and more, with explicit support for Delphi, C++Builder, RAD Studio, Visual Studio, PHP, and Lazarus/Free Pascal. Some editions with Source Code include the client engine source code, and some Client-Server source-code editions also include server source code. Overall, however, these remain commercial closed-source products rather than open-source projects.
The pages disclose annual subscription prices. The first-year subscription is included in the purchase price, while subsequent subscriptions provide access to 1 year of minor releases. For DBISAM and ElevateDB, Standard annual subscriptions are mostly US$99, Client-Server subscriptions are mostly US$159, the ElevateDB LCL Standard Edition with source code is US$59, and Elevate Web Builder is US$159, all priced in USD. Its royalty-free distribution model is attractive for packaged software vendors that need to deploy the database engine widely.
Its strengths are stable positioning, clear edition segmentation, deep coverage of the traditional Windows/Delphi ecosystem, and technical support provided directly by the product developers. The drawbacks are that the main content does not provide full purchase prices, payment methods, or trial policies, and it lacks information on cloud-native deployment, containerization, and modern web backend ecosystems. It is better suited to teams maintaining legacy Delphi/C++Builder systems, replacing BDE, building offline/embedded database applications, or distributing a database engine together with commercial software.
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